The monitors have been in place just a short time – only since registration for school began a few weeks ago – but the students at Sabin World Elementary School in the Harvey Park South neighborhood have already noticed their presence, and their response so far has been inquisitive and insistent.

Denver's Board of Public Health & Environment has received a request for a variance to Denver's Noise Ordinance (Chapter 36 of the Denver Revised Municipal Code) associated with planned nighttime work from 2018-2022 on portions of I-70 that pass through Denver.

Denver's Board of Public Health & Environment has received a request for a variance to Denver's Noise Ordinance (Chapter 36 of the Denver Revised Municipal Code) associated with planned nighttime work from 2018-2022 on portions of I-70 that pass through Denver.

Over the past decade, air-quality sensors have become more user-friendly and cheaper, so anyone can purchase a home monitoring system to check their indoor air quality. Our air-quality monitors quantify and assess air pollution, in an effort to determine the variables that contribute to poor air quality and to better inform decisions that could alter the effects on children diagnosed with asthma.

Children get just one chance to grow a healthy set of lungs, which means that addressing the issues surrounding asthma at the earliest grades can go a long way toward mitigating the effects of poor air quality.

Imagine that there was a way to monitor and evaluate air quality in schools so that teachers, administrators, and even the students themselves would be able to assess the risks at any given time and take appropriate measures to lessen exposure, as well as help inform policy decisions on a community-wide basis using environmental, health, and economic data.

Denver Public Health & Environment is a member of the Metro Denver Partnership for Health, a collaboration among the public health agencies serving the seven-county Denver metropolitan region made up of Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson Counties. Nearly 3 million Coloradans, 60 percent of the state’s population, live in the Metro region. The Partnership collaborates with regional leaders in health care, human services, behavioral health, environment, philanthropy, education, business, local government and others to achieve its goals of advancing health equity across the region. In 2016, the Partnership identified four priority areas of focus including data sharing, healthy eating and active living, behavioral health, and partner alignment and formalized its approach to collaboration in the Metro Denver Partnership for Health Roadmap. Download the Roadmap